Seattle City Council Okays Streetcar

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Felix Sukhenko

16 June 2005 - 12:00pm

A controversial streetcar is approved for a Seattle neighborhood being rebuilt by Paul Allen.

"Seattle City Council members voted yesterday to push forward a proposed South Lake Union streetcar line, telling Mayor Greg Nickels to proceed on everything from buying streetcars to setting up a special taxing district to help pay for the $47.5 million project."

Full Story: Streetcar gets OK by council committee

Source: The Seattle Times, June 15, 2005

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For the past half century we have been building communities for the wrong reasons. We built them to sell cars. This created all sorts of problems.

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Read the full article, written by Tim Halbur.